Color Names

Beeswing

Wine sediment, the delicate crust on a vintage port.

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Beeswing is a light beige, close to peach.

It can be described as light, pastel, delicate and soft.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Beeswing

Potassium bitartrate

Potassium bitartrate, also known as potassium hydrogen tartrate, with formula KC4H5O6, is the potassium acid salt of tartaric acid (a carboxylic acid)—specifically, l-( + )-tartaric acid. Especially in cooking, it is also known as cream of tartar. Tartaric acid and potassium naturally occur in grapes; its crude precipitate form, tartar or wine stone, is a byproduct of winemaking found deposited on top of must barrels, which can be purified.

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Beeswing (horse)

Beeswing (1833–1854) was a 19th-century British Thoroughbred racehorse from the north of England. In her day, Beeswing was hailed as the greatest mare in Britain and one of the greatest of all time.

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beeswing

Noun

  1. A filmy, translucent crust found in port and other old wines which have been bottled-aged for a long time.
  2. Cream of tartar; potassium bitartrate; the residual salt of tartaric acid.
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